Oxford Language Dictionaries Online [OLDO] has been upgraded to now include Russian and Chinese [previous languages include French, German, Italian, and Spanish.
Another enhancement–OLDO now offers audio pronunciation. Pronunciation is available for headwords in every language, including Chinese and Russian. To access the pronunciations simply click on the loudspeaker icon next to the appropriate word on the entry page.
Get ready for Ebsco 2.0!
The new interface for EbscoHost databases is coming in July. Get familiar with new features and a new look here.
New content on Oxford African American Studies Center
An additional 600 biographies from the African American National Biography have been added as well as 400 articles from the Oxford Companion to Black British History, the first-ever reference work to explore the story of Britain’s black population over the span of nearly 2,000 years. 30 multimedia clips are new, including Colin Powell speaking on changes in the military, historical footage of civil rights protests in Birmingham, Alabama, a United Negro College Fund TV Ad, and more.
Literary Resource Center New Interface
Literary Resource Center/MLA has a new interface. See this page for an overview.
The Gilded Age, On Trial
(from the publisher) The Gilded Age brings primary documents and scholarly commentary together into a searchable collection that is the definitive electronic resource for students and scholars researching this important period in American history. In addition to an extensive selection of key treatises that reflect the social and cultural ferment of the late nineteenth century, The Gilded Age offers a wealth of rare materials, including songs, letters, photographs, cartoons, government documents, and ephemera. This primary content is enhanced by video interviews with scholars and numerous topical critical documentary essays. Covering such themes as race, labor, immigration, commerce, western expansion, and women’s suffrage, these essays illuminate the rapidly changing cultural landscape of America during the decades between the end of the Civil War and the election of Theodore Roosevelt.”
On trial through July 1, 2008. Access on campus only.
Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (Online)
New to our online collections: The Palgrave Dictionary of Economics.
Project Euclid math and statistics ejournals
Project Euclid is expanding its content. Duke University Press and the Cornell Libraries are partnering. Project Euclid has fully and partial open access journals in math and statistics. About 75% of its content is open access. For details, see this list. The library does not subscribe to Project Euclid.
RSS feeds and table-of-contents services from off-campus
Please be aware that for electronic resources, if you are off-campus, you will often need to login into the library’s website using your library barcode in order to access content posted to you via RSS or a table-of-contents alerting email.
New JSTOR interface & related webinars
JSTOR recently underwent a redesign. Here is a PowerPoint . JSTOR is also offering these webinars:
Highlights of the New JSTOR Interface Wednesday, April 16, 2008 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/507861435
Using the JSTOR Interface Thursday, April 17, 2008 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EDT
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/780793020
Highlights of the New JSTOR Interface Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EDT https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/469266764
Highlights of the New JSTOR Interface Wednesday, April 23, 2008 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/401053120
Using the JSTOR Interface Tuesday, April 29, 2008 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/680252260
Highlights of the New JSTOR Interface Wednesday, April 30, 2008 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EDT
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/958097487
New eresources: SpringerLink and GreenFILE
SpringerLink is a very large ejournal collection in a variety of disciplines including science, technology and medicine.
GreenFile (EBSCO) covers green issues for the lay person. It is an index.
Both GreenFILE (Ebsco) and SpringerLink are now accessible on-campus. LibraryBuzz readers will be updated when both are available off-campus and SpringerLink is added to the Find-It function and our ejournals A to Z list (Serials Solutions).